Labor

In the coming years, the rules and regulations governing the employer-employee relationship are expected to change considerably. The truckstop and travel plaza industry employs hundreds of thousands of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and with a variety of skillsets. NATSO works closely with policymakers to ensure that its members can continue to provide good, well-paying jobs while controlling their costs.

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On March 7, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule to update the standard for overtime pay eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act. NATSO is currently analyzing the proposal and will produce a more detailed memorandum for members in the coming days. At a high level, however, the rule includes many of the recommendations that NATSO offered during a 2017 DOL Request for Information and the 2014 Obama Administration rulemaking.

NATSO on January 28 submitted formal comments to the National Labor Relations Board as part of the NLRB's reexamination of the "joint employer" standard. NATSO's testimony supported the NLRB's reexamination of the joint employer standard, which was revised during the Obama Administration to expand the scope of determining "co-employment" under the National Labor Relations Act.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB's) rules for determining when two different employers -- such as business and its franchisees -- are "joint employers" are too broad. This is a positive development for NATSO members and employers in general, as the broad standard has injected much uncertainty and costs into many business operations, particularly such as travel centers where the franchisee-franchisor relationship is ubiquitous.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Sept. 13 released a proposed rule to establish an updated standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. Under the proposal, an employer may be found to be a joint employer of another employer's employees only if it possesses and exercises substantial, direct, and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.